Julian Oliver discusses his work as a provocateur who uses engineering
to explore questions of privacy, government and corporate transparency,
and threat mitigation.  His most recent projects provide the public with
opportunities to directly confront these issues. “The Deep Sweep”
centers around the design of a low-cost aerial signal intelligence
platform the public can send into aerospace to probe for otherwise
out-of-reach signals between land and stratosphere, with special
interest in UAV/drone to satellite communication. “The Transparency
Grenade” takes the form of a Soviet F1 Hand Grenade and makes it as easy
as pulling a pin to leak information from closed meetings. Capturing
network traffic and audio at the site, and securely streaming this
information to servers where it is mined for information (such as
hostnames, IP addresses, email fragments, and webpages), the data is
presented online with the location of the “detonation.”

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